🎥 YouTube Channel Scraper – Extract Public Channel Data & Contacts

This Apify actor scrapes public YouTube channel data, contact information, statistics, emails and external links. It can discover channels via keyword search or process specific channel URLs directly — using Playwright + YouTube API for high accuracy.

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🚀 What It Does

The actor processes each YouTube channel and extracts:

• 📄 Channel Info: Name, Handle, ID, Description, Country, Join Date
• 🖼️ Media: Profile Logo and Banner Image URLs
• 📊 Stats: Subscriber Count, Video Count, and Total Views (both formatted and raw)
• 🔑 Keywords & Categories: Extracted tags from the About page
• 📬 Contact Info: Emails from the About section (and optionally from external sites)
• 🌐 External Links: Website & social media links with icons

💡 It handles:

• ✅ Channel discovery via keyword search
• ✅ Direct URL scraping
• ✅ Optional deep enrichment from linked websites
• ✅ API key rotation for stable operation

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Field	Type	Description	Default / Example
searchKeyword	String	Find channels by keyword (e.g., "Finance", "Gaming").	"Finance"
channelUrls	Array	Specific YouTube channel URLs to Scrape. Accepts Only Url format not handle (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXi_PlJkRMPYFQBOJ3MpxA)	["https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXi_PlJkRMPYFQBOJ3MpxA"]
maxChannels	Integer	Max number of channels to process (from both search + URLs).	10
deepEnrich	Boolean	Visit external sites (from the About section) to find more emails. Slower but deeper.	false
minSubscribers	Integer	Skip channels with fewer subscribers than this number.	null
concurrency	Integer	Maximum number of pages to process simultaneously.	10
userAgent	String	Custom User-Agent header for browser requests.	"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)..."

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🧩 Example Input

{
  "searchKeyword": "Gaming",
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwgQASlnOH1V6tnjEv7lFYw",
    "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCemhZ2At2lgifTJLClGCz9A"
  ],
  "maxChannels": 10,
  "deepEnrich": false,
  "minSubscribers": 1000,
  "concurrency": 5
}

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📊 Example Output

{
    "channelName": "Gyan Gamingㅤ",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXi_PlJkRMPYFQBOJ3MpxA",
    "channelHandle": "https://www.youtube.com/@gyangaming",
    "channelId": "UChXi_PlJkRMPYFQBOJ3MpxA",
    "aboutUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXi_PlJkRMPYFQBOJ3MpxA/about",
    "channelDescription": "Hi Gamers, I'm GyanSujan ! Here you will see me playing PC games and Mobile Games having some fun. I Playing Garena Free Fire , Fortnite , Minecraft , Grand Theft Auto V , Call Of Duty Mobile , Pubg Moblie , Garena Free Fire Max And GTA 5 With You On Gyan Gaming Channel. Fully Indian Gamer With Hindi Commentary. Business Mail - Gyanbusiness94@gmail.com",
    "banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/J5kc59aFasx9l2SMuki5LW8URF4cmXR9mh5C3822RkWX5PzsIrL84yHsYw11Iqn8eHX0bA0QTg",
    "profileLogo": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/6CxmQBUXtU15YO_bFxay6s1SU5uBkOqvQx42oUn4R_OunwtuqDVXkasex5XektSG7U0rxaomEw=s800-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
    "joinDate": "Joined Sep 1, 2017",
    "country": "India",
    "keywords": [
      "Garena Free Fire",
      "Gaming Channel",
      "Free Fire Gameplay",
      "Pro Free Fire Gameplay",
      "Ranked Free Fire Gameplay",
      "freefirelive",
      "freefireliveindia",
      "free fire live channel",
      "free fire",
      "best free fire youtuber",
      "gaming free fire",
      "free fire prank game play",
      "free fire live",
      "free fire prank videos",
      "gamer",
      "new event",
      "redeem code",
      "new",
      "raistar",
      "collection versus",
      "Gyan Gaming",
      "GyanSujan",
      "Free Fire Live",
      "Free Fire Video",
      "Free Fire Challenge",
      "Free Fire Shorts",
      "Free Fire",
      "Garena Free Fire Max"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_video_game",
      "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action-adventure_game",
      "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_culture",
      "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_game"
    ],
    "subscriberCount": "18.3M subscribers",
    "subscriberCountRaw": 18300000,
    "videoCount": "3,859 videos",
    "videoCountRaw": 3859,
    "viewCount": "2,825,083,633 views",
    "viewCountRaw": 2825083633,
    "emails": [
      "gyanbusiness94@gmail.com"
    ],
    "externalLinks": [
      {
        "label": "facebook",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/GyanGamingYT/",
        "icon": "https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/favicon-tbn?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjE8gTHsd6LJrJNEm-VcrqEOzuiajMmEo-IXhmkXxj35vwUJA44kNbJCXo2f5bXPSVtUvTlVhQ-GOMpqRHA6gN28Az8qkd7xwYcDGCBPROyOVg97T-"
      },
      {
        "label": "instagram",
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/gyangaming/",
        "icon": "https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/favicon-tbn?q=tbn:ANd9GcTI-5PGHmIaNROji4Au1BCHWlIYYuBV-S5o10vNQOpO8bKYe_6qoBk4-ZuXaoJFuMvh4TIqxnwOPvBj23km7XY2pAb98oE7qC3Akz3TL6SOymq5kX9Qzg"
      },
      {
        "label": "Discord",
        "url": "https://discord.gg/gyangaming",
        "icon": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/favicon-tbn?q=tbn:ANd9GcTW8Eht4ooW3CRBzkms3c5X_Ec50J2XvH7cnm-htH2yfaiyjEn_ry_v41pvoPdfAhwDKkAxoTmRtQ93wrX-B672Q444vz8AN-2BlSUnWg_J"
      }
    ]
  },

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🧠 Features

• 🔍 Find channels by keyword or scrape directly by URL
• 📬 Extract verified email addresses from About & linked sites
• 📊 Collect full channel stats (subs, views, videos)
• 🌍 Detect country and keywords automatically
• 🧩 Enrich results from external websites (optional)
• ⚙️ Configurable concurrency and API key rotation
• 🛡️ Built on Playwright + Crawlee with Apify SDK

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💡 Use Cases

• Lead Generation: Find business contact emails from YouTube creators
• Market Research: Analyze channels by keyword, region, or niche
• Data Enrichment: Add social and website links to existing datasets
• Influencer Discovery: Identify relevant creators in any industry

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🧑‍💻 Developer Info

Author: CodeScraper

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🏷️ Tags

youtube-channel-scraper . youtube-channel . youtube · youtube-scraper · channel-scraper · youtube-channel-email-scraper . email-extractor · influencer-research · playwright · automation · apify